Κυνῶν πόλις - Stephanos Ethnika

Κυνῶν πόλις OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Κυνῶν πόλις, Αἰγυπτία πόλις. ὁ οἰκῶν Κυνοπολίτης. ἐν ᾗ πόλει ὁ Ἄνουβις τιμᾶται.

Kynon polis: an Egyptian city. An inhabitant is a 'Kynopolites'. In which city Anoubis is honoured.

Entry	#275
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 394.20 · Billerbeck Κ275
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	13
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Entity	Details
Κυνοπολις	Cynopolis (city of the dogs) · place
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place
Κυνοπολίτης	Cynopolite (inhabitant of Cynopolis) · people
Ἄνουβις	Anubis · deity

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	'City of dogs' (Cynopolis: kyn- from κύων 'dog' + πόλις 'city')
Morphological Composition	'The inhabitant [is called] Kynopolites' (demonym formed from Κυνοπολι- + -της)
Folk Etymology Narrative	'In which city Anubis is honored' (implying the city's name is associated with the cult of the jackal-headed god Anubis)

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